A full keyboard built into an orthogonal grid. Aside from the obvious applications for disabled people, this would be a decent way for the benighted right-handed world to escape the ergonomic slum that is WASD/ASDF and enjoy some semblance of the numpad as gaming buttons.
Now if only they'd say what kinda keyswitches they're using. For $300, it better not be some crappy bubble domes.
ALSO: Maltron should be the name of some sci-fi killer AI, not a keyboard company.
As a right-handed person who plays many games, I love WASD and would not prefer the numpad. I want my dominant hand on my mouse, thanks, that's where I need the precision.
I always used to just shove my keyboard over and play left-hand numpad, right-hand mouse. I liked the numpad layout.
Then all the games started DEFAULTING to wasd instead of to arrows, and some of them weren't possible to rebind, so I started getting used to that. And now I don't have to move my keyboard any more.
I have my dominant hand on my mouse. My inferior, non-sinister hand is jump-crouching while circle-strafing and never worrying about key ghosting, or my fingers getting lost in a sea of isomorphic keys.
For Skyrim and other asinine games that don't allow remapping, there is Autohotkey. (http://www.autohotkey.com/)
Current version seems to have scared all the remapping problems out of Skyrim.
Semi-related, there's a left-handed version of that keyboard for Our Sinister Overlords, or for righties who want to keep one hand on the mouse at ALL TIMES and they mean ALL TIMES.
I need to see this in action, because I don't understand the need for that curve. Unless it's to cradle my forehead when I mash it into the keyboard, in which case, AWESOME!
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Date: 2012-02-23 07:01 pm (UTC)Now if only they'd say what kinda keyswitches they're using. For $300, it better not be some crappy bubble domes.
ALSO: Maltron should be the name of some sci-fi killer AI, not a keyboard company.
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Date: 2012-02-23 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-23 08:00 pm (UTC)Then all the games started DEFAULTING to wasd instead of to arrows, and some of them weren't possible to rebind, so I started getting used to that. And now I don't have to move my keyboard any more.
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Date: 2012-02-23 09:19 pm (UTC)For Skyrim and other asinine games that don't allow remapping, there is Autohotkey. (http://www.autohotkey.com/)
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Date: 2012-02-23 10:23 pm (UTC)Semi-related, there's a left-handed version of that keyboard for Our Sinister Overlords, or for righties who want to keep one hand on the mouse at ALL TIMES and they mean ALL TIMES.
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Date: 2012-02-23 10:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-02-24 03:47 am (UTC)I was also able to use the old iMac puck mice just fine.
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Date: 2012-02-24 04:33 am (UTC)In everything except the computer, where I use the mouse with my right hand like most
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Date: 2012-02-24 01:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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